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In Our Time
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Melvyn Bragg and guests investigate the history of ideas. Thursday 9.00-9.45am, repeated 9.30pm.
Philosophy Archive
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Schopenhauer - the tyranny of the Will
St Thomas Aquinas - his profound influence on Western faith and philosophy
Logical Positivism - or is it?
The School of Athens - picturing Greece in Renaissance minds
Thoreau and the American Idyll - America in the Wilderness
The Consolation of Philosophy - a new year's message from Boethius
Aristotle's Politics - a perfect society?
The Translation Movement - Aristotle in Arabic
Materialism - are we living in a material world?
Søren Kierkegaard - fear and trembling in Copenhagen
The Social Contract - Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau and the Origins of Society
Albert Camus - Rebel with a Cause
Avicenna - wine, women and philosophy
Guilt - what is it good for?
Socrates - the man and the myth
Common Sense Philosophy - "There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it"
Ockham's Razor - cutting medieval philosophy down to size
Spinoza - believed that God and Nature were the same thing
Karl Popper - his ideas challenged our approach to the philosophy of science
Anarchism - a question of authority?
Altruism - how can evolutionary biology explain it?
Averroes - the battle between faith and reason
John Stuart Mill - one of the most influential philosophers of the 19th Century
Friendship - thinking philosophically about our close companions
Relativism - the battle against transcendent knowledge
Thomas Hobbes and the political philosophy of 'Leviathan'
Pragmatism - a practical philosophy fit for 20th century America
Cynicism - bold and populist, the history of a shocking philosophy
Karl Marx - In Our Time's Greatest Philosopher
Beauty - the philosophy of beauty
Stoicism - the search for inner calm
The Mind/Body Problem - does the mind rule the body or the body rule the mind?
Rhetoric - from the original sophists to latter-day demagogues
Jean-Paul Sartre - a man condemned to be free
Empiricism - the English philosophy?
Heroism - do we live in an heroic age?
Wittgenstein - a philosophy of linguistics
Duty
- concepts of obligation.
Human Nature
- innate or nurtured?
Imagination
- just what is it?
Freedom
- a principle worth fighting and dying for?
The Soul
- the key to our individuality as humans?
The Examined Life
- is an unexamined life worth living?
Virtue
- is it derived from reason?
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